<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is a short madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is a short madness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62042]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is cruel and you cannot refine it. •William T. Sherman   War is too serious a matter to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61166]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is cruel and you cannot refine it. •William T. Sherman   War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing--producing unnecessary garbage and consuming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing--producing unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy. Although in the industrial world bottled water is often no healthier than tap water, it can cost up to 10,000 times more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's extremity is God's opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's extremity is God's opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation is only getting worse. We started to notice it in July when imports really started to increase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation is only getting worse. We started to notice it in July when imports really started to increase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2093]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call it a wardrobe. It's a magic place where children find out that the world is a place of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call it a wardrobe. It's a magic place where children find out that the world is a place of infinite possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64374]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11472]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This county is in dire need of affordable housing. We have to use every single tool we have to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30903]]></link><description><![CDATA[This county is in dire need of affordable housing. We have to use every single tool we have to put affordable housing anywhere it can be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I had lent my watch last night to one That dines to-day at the sheriff's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23260]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I had lent my watch last night to one That dines to-day at the sheriff's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns,  But breathes, like perfect joys,   Tender tones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns,  But breathes, like perfect joys,   Tender tones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't use makeup and wigs to have Peri and Teri look like Sara and Yvonne, but the roles were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32229]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't use makeup and wigs to have Peri and Teri look like Sara and Yvonne, but the roles were challenging because they had to portray them in three stages of their lives, from their 20s, 40s to their 60s,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire is next akin to smoke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire is next akin to smoke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51414]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud;  And sure, the reverent eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17844]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud;  And sure, the reverent eye must see   A purpose in Liquidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you canÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢t recall it, forget ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35882]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you canÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢t recall it, forget it).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8753]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14908]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome. [Lat., Omitte mirari beatae  Fumum et opes strepitumque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome. [Lat., Omitte mirari beatae  Fumum et opes strepitumque Romae.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63531]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He needs a million dollars to be able to be noticed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31854]]></link><description><![CDATA[He needs a million dollars to be able to be noticed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The Badgers) were throwing up a lot of contested shots, and we were getting rebounds and pushing it down. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36367]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The Badgers) were throwing up a lot of contested shots, and we were getting rebounds and pushing it down. We played our game. We put them in a situation where they were on their heels and had to run with us. We were coming down, getting good looks, open opportunities, and we were knocking them down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18126]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66430]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were trying to give it its own identity. Before it was tucked away and hard to find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35640]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were trying to give it its own identity. Before it was tucked away and hard to find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55823]]></link><description><![CDATA[And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well go give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well go give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day and comes safe home, Will stand a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55965]]></link><description><![CDATA[This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bruce has been a big supporter of the network from the beginning, and he's always been great to work with, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bruce has been a big supporter of the network from the beginning, and he's always been great to work with,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50825]]></link><description><![CDATA[His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen inches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47026]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37235]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A goal without a plan is just a wish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A goal without a plan is just a wish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friday was not a question of what went wrong. Drexel has a very good team, and I thought we wrestled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friday was not a question of what went wrong. Drexel has a very good team, and I thought we wrestled pretty well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30963</guid></item></channel></rss>